Cloud-Orchestrated Peripheral Protocol Selection for Workspace Reconfiguration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in configuring peripheral devices across multiple workspaces due to inconsistent communication protocols, leading to inefficient and tedious manual reconfiguration, and suboptimal use of available higher performance protocols.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for automatically determining and establishing the best-suited communication protocol for peripheral devices within a workspace using a peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator, which collects telemetry data, analyzes device capabilities, and recommends optimal connections based on current usage patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual configuration of communication protocols is performed, then device capabilities can be accurately set, but user time and effort increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication protocol configuration accuracyVSAvoiduser configuration time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic self-configuration of communication protocols by having the peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator collect telemetry data, analyze device capabilities, and autonomously determine the best-suited protocols without requiring manual user input or intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud orchestrator performs preliminary analysis of device capabilities and usage patterns before configuration is needed, storing this information and using it to automatically configure protocols when devices are added to workspaces, eliminating the need for real-time manual configuration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If consistent communication protocols are enforced, then system reliability improves, but adaptability to different device capabilities decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration consistencyVSAvoidprotocol selection flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically changes communication protocol parameters based on collected telemetry data and analyzed device capabilities, selecting from multiple available protocols (wired, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth Low Energy) to match specific device requirements and usage patterns

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud orchestrator continuously collects telemetry data from peripheral devices, analyzes this feedback information to understand device capabilities and usage patterns, and uses this feedback to automatically determine and adjust the most suitable communication protocols for each device

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If higher performance protocols are used, then communication efficiency increases, but device compatibility requirements become more stringent

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoiddevice protocol compatibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system analyzes device capabilities and usage patterns to dynamically select communication protocol parameters, choosing higher performance protocols when device capabilities support them while falling back to more compatible protocols when necessary, thus optimizing productivity without sacrificing compatibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud orchestrator performs preliminary analysis of device capabilities and stores this information, enabling it to automatically select the most appropriate high-performance protocol in advance when devices are added to workspaces, rather than requiring real-time compatibility checking

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250254546A1System and method for operatively coupling peripheral devices within a peripheral device workspace according to communication protocol best suited for device capabilities

Publication Date: 2025.08.07 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator may comprise a network interface device to receive telemetry readings describing a current usage pattern for an information handling system, available communication protocols at a location for linking the information handling system and a peripheral device, and communication protocol-dependent functional capabilities for the peripheral device operatively coupled to the information handling system at the location to form a peripheral device workspace, and a hardware processor to execute code instructions for the peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator to instruct the information handling system to operatively couple to the peripheral device using a best-suited communication protocol for selected performance from communication protocol-dependent functional capability data for the peripheral device under the current usage pattern for executing software application on an anchor information handling system node or peripheral device workspace environmental telemetry readings.